30th AACCUP Annual National Conference

The Accrediting Agency of Chartered Colleges and Universities in the Philippines (AACCUP), Inc. is ushering in its 30th year of operation. Since the year 1987, the Agency has been holding its Annual Conferences regularly every year without exception. The Conferences were sparsely attended during its early 10 years as there were only a few Members.

However, before the 20th century ended, times have changed and have kept changing for the better. Accreditation has been accepted as a vital tool to enhance the ability of State Institutions to fulfill their constitutional mandate to provide quality education. As of date, 97% of the SUCs are in the AACCUP Roster of Institutions with Accredited Programs.

Since the inception of the 21st century, the Annual Conferences have been well-attended and inclusively participated in by the State Universities and Colleges. Normally, invitations were limited to 400 participants, but the actual number always exceeded 500. We can attribute the SUCs attendance to a myriad of reasons: the relevance and timeliness of the themes and topics; the invitation of the appropriate and competent Resource Persons/Speakers; the venue and the reasonableness of the conference fees; and the systematic management of the Conference activities.

To top it all, are the support and endorsement of the CHED, and the partnering with the PASUC whose members are beneficiaries of Accreditation. This year’s National Conference is definitely attractive as AACCUP shifts gears towards internalizing the accreditation system (empowering SUCs to accredit/evaluate their programs) and internationalization (quality assurance of International Higher Education and of the AACCUP itself) to be addressed by an array of local and foreign Speakers

Part I: Conference Particulars

Activity

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30th AACCUP ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Theme

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QA Agenda for the next 10 years – “Internalizing Quality in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), and Internationalizing AACCUP”

Objectives

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At the end of the Conference, the participants shall have:

a clear view of the future of QA in the next ten (10) years;

made a comprehensive assessment of the internal quality assurance programs among SUCs;

gained a clear understanding of the program of internationalizing AACCUP Accreditation System through the Asia Pacific Quality Register (APQR); Memoranda of Agreement with foreign Quality Assurance Agencies; and hosting the APQN Conference and AGM in 2018.

Identified the strengths and areas needing improvement in the implementation of the CHED-initiated Quality Assurance System, and

elected the Members of the AACCUP Governing Board (2017-2019)

Venue

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Century Park Hotel599 P. Ocampo StreetMalate, Manila

Date

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February 15-17, 2017

Registration will start at 6:30 a. m., and continue until 9:30 a. m., February 15, 2017

Participants

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A limited number of 400 participants will be admitted to the Conference, with each SUC sending not more than 4 participants composed of

SUC Presidents and/or Vice Presidents

Deans/Directors

Chairs/Heads of Internal Quality Assurance Bodies

Accreditors and Senior Faculty

Any nomination in excess of 4 participants will be placed in the waiting list and may be admitted only to replace withdrawals or no-shows.

Participants from the following Agencies will also be invited to the Conference:

Commission on Higher Education

Local Accrediting Bodies

AACCUP’s international linkages: Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN); Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA); Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT); National Center for Public Accreditation (NCPA) of Russia; the National Agency for Academic Assessment and Accreditation (ANAAA) of Timor Leste; and the Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment(ONESQA) of Thailand.